Star Wars: The Old Republic Random Question/Discussion thread - F2P

[Zetanio]

Just got another weekend invite.

[Zetanio]

Also, from being in the last "stress" test. It's completely stable once you leave the starting area.

[Ohemgee]

Is this going to be an early build of the beta? Just so we get a bunch of shit head players running around with lightsabers and shit.

[Zetanio]

It's the current beta build as far as anyone knows.

It's a Star Wars MMO dude, it's going to be full of shitheads with lightsabers.

[Elvis]

Finally got an invite after registering in 2009. Go to sign in, password issue. Go to reset password, 'there was an error resetting your password' message constantly popping up. wtf!

[Gokulo]

Honestly Ezek, I only had trouble playing on friday night... and even that was not bad >.> I played perfectly fine all day saturday and sunday... so I don't know what the hell some people are saying.

Because up until now the amount of people that could play was limited a lot more and controlled? For this test they invited anyone that registered for the beta before 11th Nov this year + there was a ton of keys to get on different sites. I don't know how it looked previously, but this is going to be a "real" stress test for them, depending on how many people will bother to try it out.

[Dantrag]

Got another invite... Still not going to use it Dx

[vrumpt]

Because up until now the amount of people that could play was limited a lot more and controlled? For this test they invited anyone that registered for the beta before 11th Nov this year + there was a ton of keys to get on different sites. I don't know how it looked previously, but this is going to be a "real" stress test for them, depending on how many people will bother to try it out.

The last weekend test had enough people logged in to fill all the available servers up resulting in needing a queue to get in, and as far as i know everybody and their mother got into that one. I personally got zero problems or disconnects/crashes even on day one. It was remarkably stable and i was on one of the larger servers, Cosmic Turbine. I really don't think its going to be that bad, Bioware has their shit together now.

[Guyverarmor]

Yeah, I started out on Darth Malak and Cosmic Turbine, which had queues in the 6k... I agree with Vrumpt, Bioware is doing good now.

[Man0warr]

They are also staggering when people can actually start playing this weekend based on when they RSVP'd. Required IMO because it's a holiday weekend so tons more people available to play.

[Purrrfect]

Hope their game servers don't buckle like their website servers have been. The client at least downloads fine, even with the site mostly not working last night once I got the client installed and started updating it was running at 1.5+mb/s. Took all night for the whole game, hope I'm in the friday batch.

[Abandon]

got my invite today, as did 5 others on my ship.

[Zetanio]

Ok, the initial queue is to make a character. Last weekend I was logging in and out without any issues.

EDIT:

I'll stop white knighting and correcting people. Bleh.

[vrumpt]

Yay sexy color crystals! Last one is the preorder crystal when placed in a blaster.

Spoiler: show

Going through torhead looking at all the different colors available:
Black-Blue
Black-Red
Blue
Cyan
Green
Orange
Purple
Red
White
Yellow
Magenta
Black-Yellow (preorder)

need to see Black-Blue...

[Insanecyclone]

yay, can't finalize my account for this weekend cause the site keeps fucking up

[Purrrfect]

That happened to me, but it went through even though the site never said so. Check for an email from them saying you are rsvp'd.

[Natallon]

Has anyone heard from them saying what their time of entry to the test will be?

[vrumpt]

emails going out today with start times in them. I think its a really shitty idea to give some players more play time than others, but i get why they are doing it. I just would have split it up into like blocks of every 3-4 hours rather than a whole day, people who start on sunday are seriously getting screwed.

[Natallon]

Thanks! Hope I'm in the Friday crew!

[Ohemgee]

What time do the servers go live on Friday?